Mario dos Reis

On Friday 28th of July in the morning I will be providing an overview of Bayesian species delimitation, with theory and practical examples. I will also discuss how to calibrate multispecies coalescent trees to geological time.

Mini Bio

Mario was born in Venezuela, where he studied Biology at Universidad Simón Bolívar. In 2000 he moved to London where he did an MSc and a PhD at Birkbeck College in computational biology under the supervision of Lorenz Wernisch. He then did postdocs at the NIRM (now the Francis Crick institute), with Richard Goldstein, and at University College London, with Ziheng Yang. Since 2015 Mario has been faculty at Queen Mary University of London. His main research interests include development and application of Bayesian methods to estimate species divergence times, and development of mutation-selection models of codon evolution.

Phylogenetics MCMC in R

If you want something to do during the open lab sessions (Tue 24th and Sun 30th), you may want to try the phylogenetics MCMC tutorial I co-wrote with @thednainus and @zihengyang. The tutorial accompanies a forthcoming review paper (more soon!). The tutorial guides the user on how to write a full phylogenetic MCMC program in R! Tutorial here!GitHub files here!

Mouse lemur analysis with BPP

I've uploaded the mouse lemur example from my lecture to GitHub, so that you can see how to calibrate multispecies coalescent trees to geological divergence times. Code in [1] and full tutorial explained in [2].